Following Wednesday’s rumors that Justice Stephen Breyer wants to step down from the bench, a panel of analysts on FOX News speculated that President Joe Biden would nominate Vice President Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court as a replacement.
During his presidential campaign, Biden said he would appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court, a promise he has kept throughout his presidency.
“Almost everything we see coming out of the left these days revolves on race. In the current political climate in the United States, there is a great deal of political terminology that divides us rather than unite us. No, I don’t think so.” According to anchor Harris Faulkner,
Faulkner then brought up the rumour that Harris may be nominated, citing news stories about tensions inside Harris’ office and with Biden’s staff.
“So this person has to be a woman, she has to be Black and she’s gotta be younger. Anybody thinking what I’m thinking? They don’t know what to do with Kamala Harris in the White House right now. And I can’t be the only person seeing this,” Faulkner said.
“Politically speaking, if you are not happy with the vice president and you want her in a different role, there’s no greater role than the Supreme Court,” former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, also on the panel, said.
McEnany agreed that “it’s a theory that could be credible” and a position Harris “readily want to consider or accept given the challenges of the vice presidency, given the frustrations she’s incurred.”
“Or at the very least, it’s an opportunity for her to stand up and own the job she has, that we may find out that she actually relishes and would love to be able to do, and would like to take a stab at it,” Faulkner replied. “I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt.”
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It was first reported by CNN in November 2021, outlining internal unrest inside Harris’ office, their hard relationship with the Biden White House, and her blunders as vice president, including voting rights and immigration policies.
CNN detailed that when Harris’ partners were “discouraged” over her misfortunes in the VP’s office, they send around a humorous Onion article and “bat down the Aaron Sorkin-style rumor that Biden might try to replace her by nominating her to a Supreme Court vacancy.”
“That chatter has already reached top levels of the Biden orbit, according to one person who’s heard it,” CNN said.
The possibility of Biden assigning Harris to the Supreme Court would make various procedural and political complexities.
Harris, in her ability as VP, is additionally leader of the Senate and an essential tiebreaking vote in favor of Democrats, in a Senate split between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans. Harris cast 15 tie-breaking votes in 2021, outperforming the past record for the number of tie-breaking votes cast by a VP in their first year in office set by John Adams in 1790.
It’s indistinct whether Harris would have the option to make the tiebreaking choice to affirm herself to the Supreme Court. Besides, her abandoning the VP’s office would deny Democrats a greater part in the Senate, and set off some other tedious and politically exorbitant affirmation battle in the Senate to affirm her substitution as VP.
An agent for Fox News didn’t quickly return Insider’s solicitation for input.
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